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Those bars are wild!

I did not know that, thanks. 🙏

I put on a few more coats of clear and I think with this clear and some wet sanding and polish I can probably live with this.

I encountered him thru Vice Grip Garage. He does seem quite knowledgeable.

Blue goes good with orange

Nice! That should be a sweet paint job. As for the serial# plate, I think that's just personal preference.

Wow, this guy got great results with the Upol from Autozone. I'm definitely interested in that!

I live in the mountains where nothing is close by, but Amazon has it. I'll be in town this afternoon and drop by the parts store too.

I watched a video where a guy tried the Roth Flake aerosol kit and wasn't happy with the result, and truthfully it was kind of meh. Too expensive for meh. A professional paint job will cost me $600 and I'm already WAY over budget with this one so... I'm going to order some more paints and...

Camouflage...

Pretty awesome build!

Yeah, that was a great score! I agree on better bars but for the money that's a pretty trick klunk!

Or the murdered out look Camo! Those are kind of fancy. My college bike looked more like this

A paint job like this should suffice

The bars are early 90s vintage Zoom Brahma bars. I had these on my campus bike back then. Not to mention the vintage Pedro's Bobke Prayer Stix grips. :thumbsup:

Ready to roll

I'll check that out. I'd like to have a heavy-ish metal flake effect on this one. I might have to bite the bullet and learn to paint with a spray gun so I can do the flake. :39:

"The Build Off will begin at 12 am North American Central Time on Sept 1, 2024 and Final finished bike photos must be posted in the “Finished Bikes” thread by 12 noon North American Central Time on Nov 30, 2024" Plenty of time 👍

I needed to prep this chain guard for paint. It’s chrome with rust so I started with the abrasive wheel on the 4 1/2” grinder which did a great job. It seems to have stripped the chrome down a bit and removed the rust. I’ll give it an oxalic acid bath to get rid of the rest of the rust. Then...

Welcome to the forum! Some cool rides you've got there. 👍